‘Twenty-two South Koreans being held by the Taliban in Afghanistan have not been harmed despite the passing of a deadline for the Afghan government to meet the kidnappers’ demands, a Taliban spokesman…

‘The untimely death last week of the visionary activist, poet, playwright, songwriter, educator, and vocalist Sekou Sundiata is a terrible shock to the many communities that his extraordinary life and art touched….

‘Double-digit economic growth is something you can actually see in the capital city of the People’s Capitalist Republic of China. Every 24 hours, another thousand new Buicks, cute little homegrown Cherys, and…

For the past few years the hottest business story in Australia has been Sol Trujillo‘s business process transformation of its telecommunications giant Telstra. It’s been a "Barbarians in the Antipodes" saga that…

‘The way U.S. and Mexican authorities describe 44-year-old Zhenli Ye Gon, he might have sprung from some pulp novelist’s overheated imagination. ‘Born in Shanghai, he lived in Mexico and ran a pharmaceuticals…

‘On February 6, two representatives from the infamous Colombian left-wing paramilitary and drug-trafficking group FARC arrived at a palatial Renaissance estate in Marbella, Spain. While their compadres squatted in the jungle, the…

Christopher Hitchens recounts a comical revenge feud with Conrad Black, who fired Hitchens from London’s Spectator in the mid-1980s and then tried to get the polemicist out of the publishing business. "I…

Wired Magazine journalist Jeff Howe assesses the impact and viability of Assignment Zero‘s production phase to create "pro-am" journalism. Some of the highlights include how New York University’s Jay Rosen convinced Wired…

‘Dr Mohamed Haneef’s barrister has accused the Federal Government of using anti-terror laws to conceal their investigation from the public. ‘Haneef is charged with recklessly supporting a terrorist organisation, with the Australian…

Eli Lilly’s new incubator Innocentive is tapping "crowdsourcing" to streamline its innovation pipeline. Dr. Alpheus Bingham discusses how Innocentive taps current research on "combinatorial networks" from the Santa Fe Institute, how managers…